The Edge Of Somewhere

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Goth Blugrass

I was listening to Gillian Welch and David Rawlings on the train back from Marseille the other day; I realised that they sing Goth Bluegrass. There is a lot of thematic similarity between the Gothic and the darker elements of Appalachian culture.

And then this is just an outright dark dirgeā€¦makes me want to just sit down and stare off deep into the trailer park:

(By the way; these two are spectacular live. I was fortunate enough to see them about ten years ago in Greenville, SC at a small venue.)